The Books in China Database
This is a guest post by Prof. Joseph Dennis. Introduction The Books in China Database (BIC) is designed to address…
Author: The Digital Orientalist
We Need To Talk About Twitter
This is a post by guest contributor Mark Boersma. Twitter represents an important networking tool for many researchers and scholarly…
Persian Illuminated Historical Documents of Safavid Period from Georgian Depositories
This is a post by Elene Giunashvil, guest contributor for Iranian Studies for 22-23 Georgia’s cultural past, both as a…
Genius loci: extracting names and places from Japanese texts
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction Among other things, the digital humanities deals with individual items, which…
CfA for Social Media Manager
Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you…
Examining the Merits of 3D Sliced Segmental Extraction: A Case Study of Prehistoric Japanese Ceramics
This article has been contributed by James Frances Loftus III. Information about the author is included at the end of…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCoptic LanguageDH in PracticeOnline ResourcesSoftwareTextual Analysis
An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic”…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign…
A New Year, A New Beginning: The Digital Orientalist, 2021-2022
The Digital Orientalist is back from our summer hiatus! This past academic year marked another great year for the Digital…